The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times of yesterday has an article on what it terms " the astounding exposures of our foreign policy" which appeared in its columns some morning last month. Our Contemporary, we presume, refers to " The Confederation of Gaul ;" nor, indeed, are h;s commentaries unworthy of the author of that " astounding" revelation. " The pro duction by the Foreign-office of a ir.css of State papers, revealing the hostility of Russia towards this country,- proves"—what ? " Lord Palmerston's connivance with the Russian Cabinet," s lys the Times. And can anything be clearer ? What stronger proof can be found of his Lord ship's collusion with the Cabinet of St. Petersburg than his publication of a mass of State papers " revealing the hos tility of Russia towards this country ?" Indeed, the reason is so temptingly conclusive that its utter false hood is no tbstacle to its being adopted by the Times. Our Contemporary, however, is too scrupu lous to condemn even a political opponent upon the evidence of a single fact, however conclusive in itself, and other testimony, is accordingly add Need of collusion between the Foreign Secretary and the Cabi net of St. Petersburgh. It is an " astounding" fact that in 1836, at Lord Palmerston's suggestion, " the British wavy was increased." To a common observer this might seem a prudent precaution on the part of our Government, bat the clear-sighted people of Printing-House-square are not to be so deceived. To them it is evident enough that the increase of our navy was but a cunning device to fur nish Russia with a plausible pretext for following our ex ample. Except that it might interfere with " the conca tenation of his reasoning," which we have really no dispo sition to disturb, we would remind our Contemporary that the increase of the Russian navy preceded the increase of ours. And by the way, this fact will support the argu ment just as well as the other. Cannot our Con temporary assert, in his own dashing style, that by adopting the example of Russia, Lord Palmerston clearly approved it, and ought to be impeached, and God knows what besides, for this profligate connivance with the deadly enemy of England ? In addi tion to suggesting an increase in the navy, Lord Palmerston adopted "a new commercial treaty with Turkey ;" he es tablished, so we are told, " commercial and official rela tions with the independent municipalities of Circassia," a country at war with Russia, and appointed Mr. Urquhart, a most valiant anti-Russian penman, secretary of legation at Constantinople. And yet, with these facts staring them in the type of the Times, men can be found to doubt that the Foreign Secretary is in collusion with the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. Having, by this overwhelming mass of evidence, established his "astounding exposures," our Con temporary proceeds to take a bird's-eye view of " the events of Europe" for the last ten or twelve years. The precise object of the five or six and twenty lines devoted to this subject it is not easy to divine, nor, considering the very novel information set before us, would it be grateful to inquire. We are told, for instance, that " by his personal acts at Constantinople Lord Durham re cognised the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, excluding British pennants from the Black Sea." In the first place, at the period Lord Durham was at Constantinople he could," by his personal acts," neither recognise nor repudiate the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi. The casus firderis had not arisen, and Russia had not asked and could not have asked for the fulfilment of the treaty. In the second place, Lord Durham entered the Dardanelles in an armed frigate, which lay above Constantinople. In the third place, Lord Durham left the Dardanelles, and entered the Black Sea in a steamer, armed just as when she left England, in precisely the same condition as when she conveyed Sir H. Ellis on his special mission to Persia, and, above all, as this is the point insisted on, with her British pennant flying. Nor was she the only British ship from which the same pennant was displayed at the same time on these forbidden waters of the Black Sea, as a frigate happened just then to be making a circuit of the coast. Though sorely disappointed at the fate of " The Confederation of Gaul," our Contemporary it, however, nothing daunted. He has set his heart upon a confederation of some kind, and a contsderation it is evi dent he will have. With the following undigested sketch we are favoured in yesterday's Number :—" In our for mer elucidation of Lord Palmerston's conduct in the affairs of Frankfort, the German Customs, Circassia, Greece, Cracow, Algeria, the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, Java, and the North American boundary, we proved his concurrence in the violation by Russia, Prussia, Austria, France, Holland, and the United States of every international obligation by which these powers were respectively bound to England. Such a system must necessarily entail en its author the impossi bility of resisting any further encroachment of any of those Powers, and unite them in a dtfensive and offensive league against England !" We now know what we have to tx peet, and in a few days more Europe of course, "ring" with the articles of the league. Should " the Powers' determine on a partition of Great Britain, we on'y bore they will make some attempt to establish the independence of Puidledock. as hinted at by a W eekly Contemporary.-- _ Morning chronicle. The Whigs, who stormed their way to office, by agi tating that particular variety of pillage known of late by the c •nt term of appropriation (for the slams nomenclature finds :ow familiar household word to designate every branch of the furtive science), the Whigs, who took their stand upon that principle as the sine qua non of all Tithe adjustment, as the great substratum of justice, without the ac complishment whereef no Government could be suffered to exist, nay, to which not Government alone, but law, and coestitution, end religion itself must yield—the Whigs, who pealed i' into the public ear as the first, the m st in disputable, tlse most indispensable. the most iminntehle, of cernal but who now, after having totally erased from their own Tithe measure every token and vestige of this their once favourite doctrine, continue their gripe upon the Government of these kingdoms as if they had fulfilled their protestations arid redeemed their pledges—these Statesmen are just now practising in Parliament and elsewhere, a feint for their defence, which they may be quite assured will not succeed in deceiving . the country. They affect to believe that the crime imputed to them is the simple om'ssion of the approeriation clauses from their Bill, and thus plead the impossibility of enforcing those clauses in the present state of public opinion. Now, they know perfectly well that this is not the point of the charge against them. The ground of the public reprobation is, not that they have dropped the appropriation principle out of this year's Rill (for on that heal it must be admitted that the general indign ttion of the just and religious people of Great Brita;tl left them absolutely no alternative), but that, finding themselves defeated upon this vital mutter, this one thing essential and paramount, without which Ireland could not prosper, and a Ministry ought not to stand, they yet retain their own unseemly hold of office ; in a word, that instead of abandoning their places and abiding by their principle, they have aban doned their principle and abided by their places. This is the real charge, - and to this it is no answer for Lord Mel bourne to say, in his own pleasant porn curante roanees, that " lie does not mean to deny the influence of present circumstances, end thinks be may fairly give way to that influence without any dereliction of opinion 1" Now, we have already admitted that " the influence of present cir cumstances," that is, the impossibility of obtaining the con currence of the Legislature, or even of the House of Corn mens, to an appropriation of Protestant Church property for Roman Catholie uses, is a very good argument for de sisting from the attempt to enact such a clause ; but does this repugnancy of Parliament render an adjustment, excluding appropriation, more likely to be efficacious in 1838 than it .wou!d have been in 1835, when the Whigs re solved that no tithe adjustment could be satisfac tory whereof this appropriation should not form e part ? On the ccntrary, the O'Connell party, the au thorities whom the present Ministers have relied on throughout their Irish policy, hesitate not to proclaim that the prospects of pacification are very much remoter and darker than ever. Any chance, therefore, which a Tithe Conversion Bill might have had for tranquillizing Ireland in 1835 is, on the admission of their own partisans and counsellors, diminished in 1838 ; and yet in 1838, under a Tithe Conversion Bill unaccompanied by appropriation, they assume time responsibility, long since declared by them selves to be in such circumstances a desperate one, of keep ing the peace in Ireland. No doubt you cannot carry the a ppropriation ; but, having for these three years persisted, in order to turn and keep out of office its opponents and your own, that unless it be carried, Ireland cannot be go vet n wuat honesty do you now undertake to go vern Ireland without it? In other circumstances than yours, it might have been allowable to you say—True, we thought it necessary, and we think it necessary still, to the working of a Tithe Bill that it should contain appropriation clauses ; but we think a Tithe Bill without those clauses better fitted for the tranquiliza tion of Ireland than no Tithe Bill at an. Rut fromsaying. this you have by your own acts estopped yourselves be cause for three years you have resolutely held out that it was better for Ireland to have no Tithe Bill at all, than a Tithe Bill without those clauses; and you have kept her without a Tithe Bill accordingly. Not only have you till now refused t o drop the consideration of the obnoxious clauses, but you have even refused to allow that they should b eonsiderert in a separate Bill ; so indivisible have y ou always asserte d t h e two su bjects to be. That was what you said to k eep out the Conservatives , who wished these subjects divid e d ; but now that they have the country with them, and you can foil them no longer by insisting upon the indivisibility of the two matters, you unworthily under take the Governm en t on th at very pr i nc iple of separation between appropriation and tithe adjustment, on which you voted it intolerable that your rivals should attempt to govern. This it is which has filled up the measure of the nation's disgust against you. This it is which has satisfied the people that your ends are as low as your means are reckless—that int the honest zeal of a misguided liberality has hurried you into measures of danger to the Constitution and religion of the land, but that your own ignoble interests run steady and dark at the bottom of all these public hazards ; so that what seemed the effarvescences of your temerity are, in truth, but the contrivances of your selfishness. It was pos sible, to be sure, that you might have arrived at conviction of your original error, and learned from experience and re tlection, that the policy which your opponents recommended was really the right one. If so, to them, and not to you, belonged the honour of a dministerin g this p olic y ; for as ou superseded them on the pretext that they were wrong, you were bound to restore them on the proof that they were rigbt. But you possess not even the excuse, always a sorry and suspicious one when assigned as a reason for retentien of place, that you have bona fide come over from your own opinions to those of your opponents ; for your leaders in both Houses of Par liament have male especial protestation, that though they wave appropriation in the present enactment, they still adhere to their sentiments in its favour ! The principle— if that name can be given to a doctrine so wholly unprinci pled—is defunct. The Ministry engendered by it may howl at its wake, and cling affectionately to the places which it procured for them ; but it is in vain that they proclaim their continued allegiance to its memory ; it is in vain that they promise themselves a profitable resuscitation of it. It is gone, and for ever, and not a muscle of it can they galvanise into motion again. Its odour is evil in the nostrils of the people, and priests can no longer make their market of its relics. To be sure, the Ministers have the resource discreetly indicated to them by their Secretary at War. They can join in the promised agitation for the total ex tinction of the Protestant Church in Ireland. They can say, that appropriation, after all, was but a partial remedy; that Catholic Ireland, entitled to the whole of the Pro testant revs nue, would not and ought not to have contented herself with a mere participation of it ; that half measures are futile, and that the Catholic Relief Bill must be car ried out. All this they may say, and all this they would be saying now if appropriation had been already conceded ; for, indeed, the one enormity is but the natural conse quence of the other. But of the two moles of hostility to the Protestant Church, we shall prefer the undisguised and unmeasured one : it will rally more and firmer de fenders, and it will speed the riddance of the assailants.— Tiweas. We heartily congratulate our readers on the fact of the " Juvenile Offenders Bill" having last night passed the House of Lords. The Marquis of Lansdowne, on Mon day, in reply to some captious objections of Lord Lynd hurst, made the following gratifying remark respecting the organization of the new prisons to be devoted to the purpose of repressing the lamentable increase of juve nile delinquency : " The children were to be furnished with every means of acquiring a knowledge of a trade, so as to be enabled to earn an honest subsistence when they were discharged. Every means also were to be taken to enable such children as wanted to emigrate to become useful emigrants. Such was the course adopted by the Society of the Friends of Children. Such was the principle upon which the Refuge for the Destitute was constructed at present, arid he could tell their Lordships that there was at this moment residing in a pro vincial town a considerable tradesman who was an arrant thief at the age of ten, and who had learned the trade he now carried on when he was confined in the Refuge for the Des titute. He trusted the institutions established by this Bill would work equally well." We have before stated to our readers that it is proposed to effect the great desideratum expressed by the title of the Bill, viz., the suppression of juvenile delinquency, by the erection and establishment of an experimental Penitentiary for juvenile offenders, at Parkhurst, in the Isle of Wight. The objection of Lord Lyndhurst took for granted that the system to be adopted at this site was permanently and unchangeably organized ; and farther that it would bear a resemblance to the system already adopted at the Penitentiary of Milbank and other places. This is not the case. The institution will be, in the first instance, experimental ; and will therefore admit of such continued suggestions and improvements as may contribute to the sa lutary object in view. The best plans hitherto recommen ded for reforming the numerous class of juvenile delinquents (whose vices and crimes have rendered their incarcera tion necessary for the safety and well-being of society) are to be tried on a broad scale and in a liberal and en lightened spirit. The separate system of seclusion which Lord Lyndhurst deprecates is not to be tried with regard to prisoners of tender or immature years. Although with regard to adults we consider it to be the best penal succe daneum for the abortively severe punishments of the erimi nal code, we, too, should deprecate this penalty as cruel and detrimental when applied to youthful novices in crime ; and calculated to prevent their reformation altogether, by har dening their hearts and closing the avenues of their minds to the purifying influences of the education we recommend. The renunciation of this penalty is, therefore, one good feature of the Bill. There are other good features in its frame-work—such as the opportunities for educational training of a moral and religious description, and for salu brious exercise, which the institution at Parkhurst is intended to afford. By one of the provisions of etc Bill we find that a large space of ground (about eighty acres) is to be appropriated to the youthful prisoners, in order to enable them to take such healthy exercise as will tend to impart a healthy tone both to their minds and bodies. There is one objectionable feature of the Bill which escaped Lord Lyndhurst's vigilant eye, and which we hope to see removed before its provisions are brought into practical operation. We refer to the clause %%Lich em powers the Governor to inflict corporal punishment at his disi-Trfion. We ( I ...u'J!, :n the first place, the beadt of the application of corporal punishment under any circum stances, and the sooner it is got rid of—both in the civil penal code and in the penal codes of the army and navy— the better. Temporary confinement, accompanied with adequate restrictions or even discomforts, might in all cases be safely substituted for it. We protest, moreover, against a discretionary power of inflicting a punishment, against which the spirit of the age revolts, being invested in the hands of any functionary, who may or may not be a tyrant, and whose segregrated and irresponsible position may prompt him to ::buse it. We trust to see this objectionable feature of the Bill removed.—Morning Advertiser. At the Birmingham meeting on Monday, a repeal of the Corn Laws was stated to be one of the great objects, to the attainment of which Mr. Attwood and his friends pro pose to devote themselves ! A repeal of the Corn Laws would confiscate four-fifths of the agricultural capital of England—would destroy our home market—increase the wretchedness of the labouring poor to an extent absolutely intolerable—render the discharge of public and of private obligations impossible—anal precipitate the country into a revolution of bleed. Knowing how inevitable such results are, if the Corn Laws be repealed, the farmers of Eno-land are apt to believe the repeal of these laws to be scarcely in the list of possibilities. It may be well for them to dis trust their fixed conclusions on this subject. Changes quite as fatal in their tentic my—although not so comprehensive in their range of mischief—have been in regular progression during the last 20 years ; and each of those changes, be fore it took place, appeared as little likely to occur, as a re peal of the Corn Laws may appear probable, at the present moment. The crusade against native industry which Whig " philosophers" projected, and which Whig Sta'es men and their pupils have led, has been in regular progress for twenty years past. Our labouring poor are doomed, day by day, to severe competition with machinery, and with foreign producers. Our system of cottage manufactures — that system which provided profitable employment for the young, without robbing them of health and innocence—has long since given way to our factors , system, with all its un utterable catalogue of physical and moral horrors ! Nearly a million of ingenious, intelligent, and most paticnt ope ratives—the hand-loom weavers—have been robbed by the Legislature, of a market for their labour, and calmly handed over to a struggle with starvation—a struggle that must terminate in the violent extinction of the class! The market-gardeners of Kent, and of the other fruit-growing counties are now about to be sacrificed —and the farmers of England will, in du: time, be aided to the list of victims to th e principles of " philoso phical" legislation. Why should the farmers hope to escape? Will they appeal to the fact, that their land lords are concerned in the framing of the laws, and there fore, never will consent to sacrifice the cultivators of the soil? Let not farmers deceive themselves! The land lords of England—if they had understood, in the faintest degree, even their ots n permanent personal interests (to say nothing of the great interests of the nation, and of humanity) never would have consented to sacrifice the hand-loom weavers, nor would they endure, for an hour, the system which dooms tens of thousands of helpless children to slavery in cotton factories. The landlords of England, be it recollected, moreover, are sinking, more and more, every year under the dominion of the " philo sePhers" and the schemers ;—and many of them begin, actually, tia bellow, that a repeal of the Corn-laws— although it might ruin the present race. of farmers—would not injur e , p ermanent l y, t h e mar ket value of land. Lord r william openly avows this opinion—and his Lordship is not without many silent followers amongst the landlords who take part in the business of legislation—and who ci would not be unw illi ng , b y sacrificing the farmers, to gain a respite from unp o p u l ar i ty T I t is true, o standby t sundoubtedly,trndhbays thee r t ( at r a s s yet the Parli amentary landlords seem ; aunndwiiitiiitsignnoelses to meddlesstrue,that w L it o h rd th Melbourne CornelbouLaews. declared landed l ded his aristocracy, however, has shown itself, of late years, wil ling to oppose but feeble resistance to the march of hurly burly innovation on the rights of the producing classes— and as for Lord Melbourne, he is but the creature of " the pressure from without." Let but an extensive system of agitation be organised—let but akw large meetings, like that of Birmingham, send forth their voices--and the far. THE SUN", LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1838 mers will be sacrificed, as the hand-loom weavers have been sacrificed in times past. Let the farmers ponder gravely on the dangers of their position. They can trust to nothing but their own energies. The harvest promises to be a deficient one ; prices are rising. Foreign wheat will soon be introduced in immense quantities, until Eng lish wheat will, in all probability, sink to five shillings a bushel. The supply mey, after :11, prove deficient. The moment prices shall, in these circumstances, rice again, an outcry will be raised aga'nst the Corn Laws. Their repeal will be the consequence, and then—the beginning of the end will indeed have arrived. Let the farmers look to it. —Morning Hcrald. We are glad to perceive that last night Lord Brougham laid on the table of the House of Lords a Bill to explain, alter, and amend an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament for the Government of' Canada. That this Act requires explanation and amendment there needs no other evidence than some of the steps which have been taken, professedly under its authority, by Lord Durham, and which, if the fact may be believed on Lord Melbourne's assertion, there are parsons who call themselves, and are called by others, learned in the law, to say the Act really authorises. Whether Lord Brougham is the individual Member of Parliament most likely to supply such explana tory and amending enactments as the Act requires, asd neither more nor less, may very reasonably be doubted ; but be this as it may, his Lordship must be allowed to have rendered a very important service to the State in thus sub jecting its provisions to the careful revision of the House of Lords, now that they have been seen in operation, and that the unnatural and unprofitable truce of parties during which they were enacted is fortunately at an end. But, in relation to Canadian affairs, the explanation, however clear, and the amendment, however perfect, of the Act of Parlia ment under which the North American colonies of Great Britain are governed, is obviously not enough. What seems to be still more urgently and imperatively accessary is to find out, if that be possible, sonic means of teaching the Noble Lord to whom the government of these colonies is entrusted, that Acts of Parliament are made, not that the Governors of colonies should disregard, but obey them. Whatever obscurity there may be in the meaning of some parts of the Act of Parliament which confers upon Lord Durham all that is extraordinary in his powers, it is sufficiently clear that there is no part of that Act which confers upon him the power of making laws for any of our North American colonies, with the ex ception of Lower Canada, the constitutional legislature of which is for a time suspended ; and that there is no part of the Act which authorises him to make laws, even for this province, which, instead of being general in their application, are specially adapted and applicable only to the cases of particular individuals. Yet this is what Lord Durham did when, by his proclamation, he banished to the island of Bermuda certain subjects of her Majesty accused of high treason, but neither proved nor judicially acknow ledging themselves guilty of that or any other crime, upon pain of death in the event of their returning to Lower Canada ; and this is what he did still more arrogantly and absurdly in assuming, without proof or confession, either judicial or otherwise, against certain other subjects of her Majesty absent from the colony, that they are guilty of high treason, and commanding them, upon pain of death, Rot to return. It seems to be admitted even by the Law Officers of the Crown, to whom we must sup pose Lord Melbourne alluded the other night when lie spoke of the highest legal authorities, that the trans portation of the unconvicted traitors of L ow er Canada to Bermuda by Lord Durham's proclamation is illegal. The admission is worth something. But why is the transportation without conviction or legal confession of crime of the subjects of the Queen to Bermuda contrary to law, if their transportation to any other place whatever would have been agreeable to law ? If, in virtue merely of the Queen's commission to represent her magisterial and executive power in the British settlements of North America, Lord Durham is authorised to pass sentence of transportation upon unconvicted and untried indi viduals, he would be as well authorized to transport from Lower Canada to Bermuda as to Upper Canada. New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia. If his power of transportation is supposed to be derived from the Act of the British Parliament which constituted his Lord ship and the Council, he might appoint Legislators for Lower Canada, but for Lower Canada only, no sup position can be more absurd. To enact that trans portation shall be the punishment, whether of a par ticular class or a particular instance of crime, implies legislative power in the territory to which, as well as in the territory from which, the criminal is to be tranzported. But it is not pretended that Lord Durham and his Council had been invested with legislative power in Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or indeed anywhere in the world, except in the single province of Lower Canada. It follows that Lord Durham, as a legis lator, can only transport men, whether under a general or a special law, from the province of Lower Canada to the province of Lou er Canada. The British Parliament con ferred upon the Queen's Governor and Commissioner in Lower Canada great, extraordinary, and unconstitutional powers, but not unlimited powers. Lord Durham ac cepted these high and important offices with full know ledge of' the powers legally appertaining to them, and of the limitations by which—certainly in no niggardly or j-alous spirit—tile Legislature had thought fit to circumscribe them. And having done this, he proceeds, immediately on his arrival at the seat of his Government, to exercise—we do not stop to say how discreetly—his 1 Tat powers, and to show how thoroughly he despises their legal limitations. And the answer, the only answer, to those who complain of this is, that Lord Durham in Canada must needs be a better judge of wl,at is best to be done than anybody in England ' can possibly be ; that it is unfair and captious to find fault ; and that if his Lordship's measures be a little unconstitu tional and a little illegal nobody ought ta mi nd that, as it may, perhaps, turn out, by and by, that they were very convenient. So the Governor of a colony who, nit satis fied with the all but unlimited powers he legallyenj usurps powers which the law has not conferred, who then oys, insults the British Pa:liarnent and people, and o ffers a fla grant outrage to the good sense and patriotism of the people of Canada, is to be shielded from blame by a plea weaker and more wicked than even the tyrant's plea of necessity, the plea, namely, of hypothetical convenience.— Morning Post. AGED FREEMASONS' ASYLUM. evening a general meeting of the Governors and friends of the In. st tution eras held at the New London Hotel, Bridge-stree t, friars, Dr. Crucit:x in the chair. The report for the past year Was read, and answered the most sanguine expectations of the ficiends and sub. scribers to the asylum. Thu accounts were audited and found to be most satisfactory. The general communications from the London, pro vincial, and foreign lodges in favour of the asylum were of the most gratifying nature. Several speeches were delivered and resolutions passed in favour of the institution. The annual Committee was ap p_inted, and Ahlerman Thomas Wood was unanimously e'. cted a trus tee of the institution. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated. A letter of the 25:11 ult. from Malta, publis h e d the S e maphore of Marseilles, states that Duke Maximilian of Ba varis had terminated his quarantine at Fort Manoel, several days pre % inusly, and had landed with his suite at La Valetta. after being greeted with a s (lute of twenty-one guns, procee ded to the 1)3:ae?, where he wds met by a guard of honour, and was Cher_ received .tall of the Governor at the top of the staircase, and conducted t o the all of Audience, where lie was presented to Lord and Lady Pon sonll• lie his shor t stay at next visited the arsenal and public library, aid during The Pi ince, Malta inspected all the public institutions worthy of notice. His Royal Highness and suite had subsequently embarked on b oard the Sainte 1G ene t tede for Na l les. Admiral Sir R. Stopford with his Hl'squadron itIMI' in the port; the vessels being the Prin cess Charlotte, Rodney,' Asia,'Vanguard, Pembroke line-of.battle ships ; Barham and Castor, frigates ; Wasp brig, and the Rhadamanthws steamer. Since his departure from Toulon, Sir R. Stopford, with the greater part of his squ,dron, had visited Port Mahon and Cagliari. TIIE ARISTOCRACY OF ENCL AND.—DeSpOt • ISIII will sometimes abuse its power; aristocracy will sometimes be insolent, o r nature,f,,o l i s h, will or the corrupt, doro i dominion oppressive; oo tui ol popu la ce 1, z b n u h tya, exist b l io n ws :ne t fo h ocr e oreuap f l frail do a dr i i l yi wish state ,Aci o rinnt f ,oi i fuo human sb : ear; b w t i i s t e is ? it Tl p s o e ss o i l b d l e nobility t t y h e n" e y q ine quality must exist, what so palatable as this ? When they are insolent is their insolence like that of new-got wealth 1 It is a counteraction to "leisureintrigue, cra ft , wipe. r , a , u d, Theeorrretsiipvtioot for andcorruption, it, violence,io spitefo and aii i , l eaves" asseverations m men to the contrary, cannot be eradicated from the human bosom ; and he who has it, and does not experience a complace tnb n oa t bti s lii a st t y, isfaction at the rettec. oi who dis aanbdo aboriginal— looking are gi o s a o I le g lion on ~ so, i i , t a , t i b s e a fe f o ot i a s l o r T s b o o sri f e e t te h i r r e t g all worse, y of the oldest an d n obles t of Euro p e ; they may hypocritebae"callegd looking to the conquest, and some even towards Charlemagne. —Sin' Egrt Durham cows were lately sold at K erry at an e o on B e ry riges. Sonic average of 301., one brought as much as 40 guineas. HOME-MADE BRICKS.—The following is a p o cess of making th e bricks which are much used in Norfolk for buildring ". w alls, and farm building s, on account of their cheapness h pro cess i; to dig the clay or brick earth a s free fromstone;ts plotsetsaibfiglree:,t'and put one load of sand or road scrawings to two loads of clay ; placed size, the ,)n a quantity of water is well in mixing, which is done by treading with horses ; some short straw being evenly thrown in duringmthadeeptrcoesfseoetf treading, as much as can conveniently be trodden is required. This prevents the bricks from cracking as they dry. AS soon as sufficiently dry to bear turning, they should be set on one edge, and kept fre q u e ntly turned that they may dry evenly. They may be ma ,o d u e alfdt a e n riS y idouotgy, beingten or o shilling lere,, inchesthe wide,h ttnd a r n ed d . o i o T o h i e n y r haerse' thick .us ua in a mould the same as the common brick in the place l w l y h Th— er e e y th ar e e y a re to remain till dry. The ground they aremadeon should be quite even and the ground , and a li o g d ht r l l y e co o v a e r r ti e , d p o o ‘ t 'er io w r i o th mould is taken away and the brick is left to dry. In building w ith fo ' r ati m d. the T b h r e ic m k them, orta r.brick The earth, with a little lime, may be used instead of co mmon m expense of digog, treading, and making, is fro m 7 s. to Ss. per hundred, exclusively Of carting and horse labour. The width of brick may vary accortithg to the strength of the wall required. For instance, nine inciter wide is sufficient for a cottage, and twelve or four teen inches wide for a barn. One hundred of these bricks, nine inches thick, ten or eleven wide, and two feet long, are equal to about 1,500 common bricks, and these cost Bs. or 10s. per hundred; the common, I think, are 45. per hundr ed, which, for 1,500, to be equal to 100, would be Si. To ensure the buildings greater permanency, it perhaps would be best to build a foundation of burnt bricks or stone five or six inches out of the ground, and to give the home-made bricks a coating of coal tar, or other similar substance.—Sussex Ezprat. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS, AUGUST 8 The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the Wool,ack at a Quarter before Five. The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions front Louth, Newea=tle- upon. Tyne, Chester, and Ashton-under- Lyme, against idoLtrous wrr,hip in India. The Militia Pay MD went through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Lord RE DE SD AL E presented a petition from I.,,eds in favour of the Factory Bill ; also a similar petition Innat Bristol. The Stamp Dies Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Slave Trade (Tuscany) Bill went through Committee. The Slave Trade ( Sicily) Bill went through Committee. The Bank of Ireland Itepa)ment Bill went through Com mittee. To be read a third time to- morrow. The Fines and Recoveries Bill was read a third time and passed. CANADA. Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table a Bill for altering and explaining the Act pas.sed for the Government of Lower Canadj, and for annulling the Ordinances p!ssed under the same. Read a first time. Lord ELLE N BO ROUG H brought up the Rcpnrt of the Committee appointed to draw up the reasons for their Lordships disagreeing with the Commons' amendments to the Irish Cor poration Bill. Their Lordships then adjourned till to-morrow (this day). EXTRAORDINARY SECT OF FANA- TICS IN INDIA. (From the United Service Journal.) Ever since I have been in India, I have heard of a class of Mussulmans, the disciples of a sect or saint, by name Shaikh Ruffai, who, in order to impress the unbelievers with the truth of the Mussulman faith, imparted to his followers the power of plunging swords and daggers into their bodies, cut ting off their tongue, frying it, and putting it together again, cutting off the head and limbs, scooping out the eye, and, in truth, doing with their bodies whatsoever it pleased them to do; all of which Col. G--, in company with a clergyman, a Mr. R—, had seen, when the latter grew sick and ran out of the place, declaring it was the power of Satan, which to this day he believes, and the Colonel that it is done through the power of the art magic, at which I, of course, laughed, and declared that, so soon as a man of the regiment (by name Shaikh Kureem, one of these Ruffai) should return from furlough, I would witness the exhibition. - A large tent was accordingly pitched, and fifty lamps furnished, and plates full of arsenic, and quantities of a plant of the cactus tribe filled with a milky juice, a drop of which, if it fall on your skin, blisters it, and a vast quantity of the common glass bangles, or bracelets, worn by the women, and daggers, and swords, and things like thick steel skewers, and other horrid-looking weapons like a butcher's steel, only with a large handle covered with chains, and about twenty Ruffais to beat all manner of drums ; and so, when all was ready, about five of the officers left the mess-table with myself, and along with us about a hundred sepoys crowded into the tent. When we were seated, and silence obtained, the work commenced by a sort of chant from their sacred books, the drum-beaters joining in and keeping time ; the chant increased at length both in noise and velocity, until, having worked themselves into an ecstacy, they seized bold of the instruments, the body kept in a sort of swinging motion, some plunged the skewer instruments, one through each check, another through the tongue, a third through the throat, and then commenced stabbing themselves with swords and daggers, and all sorts of nasty instruments. Others cut off their tongue, and, having roasted it in the fire, put it in their mouth again, when it immediately united ; they ate the arsenic and the blistering milk-plant, whilst others munched the glass bangles, as though they were the greatest delicacies. This was all done within half a yard of my knees, for they came up close to me with many lamps, in order that I might see there was no deception ; and I do assure you that it made me feel sick, and produced anything but an agreeable sensation on my mind, for to this moment I know not what to think of it. 1 am not superstitious; and, although the Colonel and numerous most respectable natives had declared to me that they did actually do these things, and that, if a sense were to be in any manner trusted, they had seen it all done, I would, nevertheless, not believe it. I was told beforehand that it required faith and purity on the part of the performer, and that then not a drop of blood would follow, but that, other wise, a few drops of blood would sometimes follow the instru ments, and the performer would receive some slight injury. On taking my departure from the tent I happened to say that I should, at all events, think more honourably of their prowess if I saw them exhibited in the open face of day, and divested of noise, motion, paraphernalia, &c. On the following day, whilst reclining on my couch, at about two o'clock, reading an English newspaper, without a servant or a spill near me, in rushed their Kasee (priest or judge), his hand full of instru ments, which, throwing upon the ground, he seized one, plunged it through his cheek on the left side, another on the right, a third through his tongue upwards, so that it stuck into his nose, another through his throat ; he then stabbed himself with a bright and sharp crrese, which enterod his body about three inches ; not a drop of blood fell : he was going to cut off his tongue, when I bogged of him to desist. I was, in truth, perfectly nauseated at the sight. The man was in a state of frenzy, and really looked frightful, his face stuck full of instruments, and stabbing and cutting himself with all his might. I sang out for some people, and turned him out. I have now told you what I have seen, and yet I will not ask you to believe it, for I know not myself what to think. There are many persons of very strong minds in other respects who firmly believe, and who do not hesitate to declare their belief, that, although driven out of Christendom, demonology, witchcraft, necromancy, and the entire list of black and for bidden arts and powers, are abroad and i❑ full existence in India. And I must declare that I will never again trust my senses if I did not see all that I have told you. I examined the instruments—l saw them drawn out of the flesh, and no scar, or blood, or mark left ; I saw also a man cat and swallow three ounces of arsenic, and crunch and swallow glass bangles innumerable; and yet, although " seeing is belie:ing," I can scarcely say that I believe what before a court of justice: I would swear I had seen. SL A VERY.—We have now followed the Europeans to;every region of the globe, and seen them planting colonies, and peg. piing new lands, and everywhere we have found them the same—a law. less and domineering race, seizing on the earth as if they were the first born of creation, and having a presumptive right to murder and dis. possess all other people. Everywhere they have had the word of God in their mouth, and the deeds of darkness in their hands. In the first dawn of discovery, forth they went singing tire " Te Daum," and de.. Glaring that they went to plant the cross amongst the heanen. It turned out to be the cross of one of the two thieves, and a bitter cross of crucifixion it has proved to the natives where they have received it. It has stood the perpetual sign of plunder and extermination. The Spaniards were reckless in their carriage of the Indians, and all sue. ceeding generations have expressed their horror of The Spaniards. 'fag Dutch were cruel, and everybody abominated their cruelty. One would have thought that the world was grown, merciful. Behold North America at this moment, with its disinherited Indians ! See Hindustan, that great and swanning region of usurpations and exac tions ! Look at the Cape, and ask the Caffres whether the English are tender.hearted and just.:' ask the same question in New Holland : ask it of the natives of Van Mcrae:l's land—men transported from the island of their fathers. Ask the New Zealanders whether the warriors, whose tattooed heads stare us in the face in our museums, were not deli cately treated by us. * Many arc the evils that are done under the sun; but there is and can be no evil like that monstrous and earth.encompassing evil, which the Europeans have committed against the Aborigines of ev,ry country in which they have settled. It is often said as a very pretty speech—that the sun never sets upon the dominions of our youthful °nem ; but who dares to tell us the far more horrible truth, that it never sets on the scenes of our injustice and cppression I * • * The slave tra,le, which one of our best informed philanthropists asserts is going on at this moment to the amount of 170,000 negroes a year, is indeed the dreadful climax of our crimes against humanity. Regions were seized on by fraud or vio'enee; it was not enough that there rightful inhabitants were murdered or en. slaved; that the odious vices of pe - .ple styling themselv...s the followers of the purest of beings, should be poured like a pestilence into these new countries. It was not enough that millions on millions of peceful be. logs were exterminated by fire, by sword, by heavy burdens, by base violence, by deleterious mines and unaccustomed severiti s—by dogs, by man.hunters, and by grief and despair—there yet wanted one crowning crime to place the deeds of Europeans beyond all rivalry in the cause of evil—and that unapproachable abomination was found in the slave-trade. —William Holvitt. MOUNT TABOR, THE SCENE OF THE TRANS rioveaTioN.—lt stands perfectly isolated ; arising alone from the plain in a rounded tapering form, like a truncated cone, to the height of threw thousand feet, covered with trees, grass, and wild flowers from the b .se to its summit, and presenting the combination, so rarely found in natu ral scenery, of the bold and the beautiful. At twelve o'clock, we were at t he miserable village of Deborah, at the foot of the mountain, sup posed to be the place where Deborah the prophetess, who then judged Israel, and Barak and " ten thousand men after him, descended upon Sisera, and discomfited him and all his chariots, even nine hundred cha riots of iron, and all the people that were with him." The men and bo ys had all gone out to their daily labour, and we tried to p ersuade a woman to guide us to the top of the mountain, but she turned away with contempt; and, having had some practice in climbing, we moved around its sides until we found a regular path, and ascended nearly to the top without dismounting. The path wound around the mountain, and gave us a view from all its different sides, every step presenting something new, and more and more beautiful, until all was completely forgotten and lost in the exceeding loveliness of t h e v ie w from the summit. Stripped of every associa tion , and con. sidered merely as an elevation commanding a view of unknown valleys and mountains, I never saw a mountain which, for beauty of scene, better repaid the toil of ascending it; and I need not say what an inte rest was given to every feature when we saw In the valley beneath the larg e I) hin of Jczreel , the great battleground of nations ; on the s ou th the su pposed range of Hermon, with whose dews the psalmist compares the " pleasan tness of brethren dwelling together in unity ;" beyond, th e ruined village of Endor, where dwelled the witch who raised up th e prophet Samuel ; and near it the little city of Nain, where our Saviour raised from the dead the widow's son; on the east, the mountains of Gilboa, "whole Saul, and his armour-bearer, and hi s th ree sons, fell upon their swords, to save themselves from falling into the hands of the Philistines;" beyond, the Sea of Galilee, or Lake of Genesareth, the theatre of our Saviour's miraeles, where, in the fourth watch of the night, he appeared to his terrifies disciples, walking on the face of the waters; and to the north, on a lofty eminence, high above the pof Ta b o r, the city of Saphet , supposed to be the ancient Bethulia, a:l o nged to in the word s, " a cit y that is se t on a hill cannot be hid. " —,Stephen's I n cidents qf Travel. About two months ago a fine little boy, named John Eva „,, son of a painter and French polisher, r,siding at No. 20, Upper Lisson-street, Lisson.grove, was seized upon and bitten in the lower part of the stomach by a dog, supposed to be in a rabid state. A surgeon, who was sent for immediately, cauterised the part, and no unfavourable s ymptoms were evinced by the child until Thursday last, when he ex perienced much difficulty in breathing, and in other respects seemed un well. Medical aid was once snore o b ta i ned, but, in spite of all the exertions used, he rapidly got worse, and on Sunday afternoon died raving mad from the effects of the wound. The deceased, who has thus fallen a victim to that most dreadful of all maladies—hydrophobia, was no more than ten years of age, and during the last few hours of his existence the agony he endured was terrible in the extreme. EAST INDIES CAMP, POONAII, MAY take advantage of this over land mail, the last of the season; to inform you of the present stwe of affairs on our north-western frontier. Colonel H. Pettinger has succeeded at length in ft mly estat.,lisiring the influence of the Government ia Sinde, and ell the (four) Princes of Hyderabad, however opposed to each other, ba,e found it their interest to jeiti cordially in a treaty which has lately been ferware.ed to C .leu:.ta for ratification by the Supreme Government. By this treaty it is provi.led that two residents on the part of the British Governm: nt shall be placed immcdietely in Sinde, and,' although their stations are not yet fixed upon, it is supposed one will reside in the Hyderabad, and another in the Kyrpoor territory. I do not think, as I have before stated, that Sinde itself will ever p.esent a field for European enterprise or commercial sp,culation, but as the high road to other countries which do now by other channels receive great supplies of European manufactures, and in which the demand for such supplies is hourly increasing, it is invaluable, and the necessity of re moving every chalice of obstruction or imposition likely to be practised upon the traders who proceed by that route is t obvious to require comment, and this grand object has been most completely effected. Colonel Pottinger proceeds after this: monsoon to visit the different Princes of Sinde, and to introduce to them the officers selected by the Bengal Govern. ment to fill the situations of residents in that country. The knowledge that Runjeet Sing had latterly most seriously con templated the entire subjugation of Sinde, and was only pre vented from so doing, about 18 months ago, by our decided interference, and the threat of sending 10,000 men from the Bombay Presidency into that country, has had great effect on the late arrangements with Sinde. The accounts from coun tries still further north than Sinde are not less interesting and satisfactory. Lieutenant Eldred Pottinger, Bombay Artillery, who had proceeded, disguised as a horsedealer, to explore the passes and deserts cast and west of the Indus, accidently arrived at the city of Herat about the time that for tress was besieged by the King o f Persia in person. Lieut. Pottinger, anticipating the bad consequences of the place falling into the hands of the Persians, who are generally sup posed to be instigated by Russia to conquest in that quarter, immediately offered his services to the \Vuzeer, and by his advice and example prolonged the siege to seven months, at the end of which it appears, by official accounts just received, the King was obliged to raise the siege, and retire with dis t grace and much loss towards the frontiers of Persia. This 'very fortunate occurrence will probably firmly establish the , British influence on this most important point (Herat), so far to the westward, and should our goad policy do the same in t the intermediate countries, including Candahar, Cabool, and the smaller states between Herat and the Indus, it will not I only open a most extensive field for European manufactures l and enterprise, but secure to the British Government valuable , allies in case of need hereafter. EXTRAORDINARY EcHo.—About a mile out of Milan is a decayed palace, called the Villa Simmonetta, where there is an extraordinary echo. You ascend to the second floor of the house, and in a room, at the aperture of a large square window, which is oppo site to the blank wall of the corresponding wing of the house, the"ceho has been counted to repeat the report of a pistol eighty-live times: In the echo some words in the same sentence are repeated stronger than others, and do not always regularly diminish and die away, but, after some faint repetitions, return to the ear with increased strengtlOimilar to the effect produced in the Whispering Gallery in Gloucester Cathe dral, by a person walking round it, which is the other instance of the peculiarity. This effect at the Villa Simmonetta applies to the sound of some particular word in a sentence, and not to all indiscriminately. This echo interested Napoleon very much ; he went several times, and used to discharge two pistols at once, and always exclaimed that it was the most extraordinary thing he had ever heard. JESUITS' DAY.—Monday, the anniversary of the " Jesuits' day," was observed with its usual solemnity in the loyal city of Exeter. The origin of the celebration is as follows :—ln 1547, Ed. ward VI. having been called to the th rone at nine years of age, his uncle, the Duke of Somerset, was appointed protector and intrusted with his education. The Duke instilled into the youthful Monarch's mind a dislike to the religion and customs of the Church of Rome. Masses were abolished —images were suppressed—the laity were admit ted to the cup, and the common prayer and liturgy were corrected. In consequence of this reformation a rebellion was fomented by the monks, and broke out in Devonshire. At Samford Courtenay the inhabitants refused to admit the new liturgy, and they were supported by others. The magistrates in vain endeavoured to suppress the disturbance. The rebels strengthened Crediton, blockaded the city of Exeter, and, making a stand at St. Mary Clist, burned the gates, and attempted to starve the citizens, who had dug ditches within the walls to prevent their entrance. The rebels were ultimately attacked in their rear, and totally defeated; and the magistrates, in gratitude to the Almighty, ordained the 6th of August to be kept as a day of thanksgiving. The ringleaders were executed in London and Exeter. Two MEN DROWNED.—On Wednesday morning between two and three o'clock, as Sir William Maxwell, of Monreith, was returning in his yacht, the Giaour, from Kirkcudbright, whcre he had been with a party of friends to witness the regatta and laces, and just as the vessel had reached the bar on her way down the river, one of the men,William Kirk, got into theboat to have it ready to land the pilot. While he was in the act of shipping the thole-pins, the pilot without waiting for the versa! to heave to, incautiously attempted to get into the boat, and stepping on the gunwale she capsized bottom up, by which he and Kirk were both precipitated into the water. The yacht, which at this time was running free about two or three knots, with a light breeze, immediately brought to the wind, and hove to on the opposite tick, which brought her within a few yards of one of the men just as be sank ; the vessel then cruised about for a long time without seeing any thing of either of the men, or the boat's oars, without which those on board could not make any use of the boat in search of their unfortunate shipmate*. The moment the accident occu:red, the gentlemen on board the Gaiour hailed the men in the water to keep up their spirits, and once or twice they were heard to speak. The acrid. nt is attributable to the poor man's want of caution in stepping on the gunwale of so small a boat ; both men were perfectly sober. Kirk had a brother on board the yacht, one of the crew. The name of the pilot is not known. — Galloway Register. - • TITIIE VICTIms.—We are informed that Peter Follierd, a Publican and farmer residing in the town of Naas, was ar r sled a boitt a fortnight ego at the suit of the Very Rev. Dean Burgh for tithe arrears, due about two years ago, at which time the man be coming embarrassed, took the benefit of the Insolvent Act, handing over all his property to the creditors. It is added that the unfortunate man, who is 75 years of age, suffers great hardships and restrictions in his con finement, not being allowed to participate with the other debtors in the comparative freedom of a largo yard, under the plea that the permissio of the Sheriff is absolutely necessary. Surely Dean Burgh must be ig norant of the fact, that the law guarantees freedom from arrest to a party for any debt Incurred previous to obtaining the benefit of the Insolvent Act, provided such debt has been duly set f,rth in the schedule. Other wise, it i.; exceedingly improbable that he would have thrust this poor old man into gaol, rendering himself liable to no very gentle visitation of the law.—Pilot. The following instance of a deaf anti dumb woman committed to the prison of Kirton in the division of Lindsey, in the county of Lincoln, where she has been nearly twenty years, is thus mentioned by the inspector of prisons for the northern and eastern dis trict of the kingdom found in the course of my inspection that a deaf and dumb female has been confined here since ISIS. It appears she was committed at the October sessions, held at Louth, in that year, on a charge of vagrancy, and from that period to the present has been regularly recommitted from sessions to sessions. The Chaplain has endeavoured in vain to trace out her relatives. She was employed in cooking the prisoners food until her health failed. She is between 50 and CO, and likely to live some years. She is allowed to go outside the prison. The surgeon states it as his opinion that her removal would be injurious to her. I had her brought before me and interrogated her. She expressed herself as feeling happy at being there, and apediared quite agitated when asked If she would like to leave the prison, to which, by signs, she gave the most decided negative." A NOVEL KIND OF CANDLESTICK.—At a fune ral in the island of Mull, about fifty years ago, a considerable assemblne of the gentlemen of the country attended. A large barn was prepared as the sleeping place. A row or range of beds was made On each side of the barn—hay and straw, covered with blankets, and each gentleman as be got drunk was carried to bed by persons in attendance for the purpose. There waspresent a Dr. Maclean, a medical gentleman, re. markable, in those days, for his sobriety and great decorum of conduct. Finding lie had taken as much wine as was good for him, he proceede to the great bed-room (the burn), holding in his hand a 1 ghud candle. He knew that his berth was next to the person who had last been car. ried out. Having no candlestick, he looked around him for some con venient place in which to fix the stump which he held in his hand. The only place which he could find was the ear of the friend who lay drunk and asleep in the berth next to him. Ile approached him, and having droppe I sonic tallow from the candle in the man's car, he fiat d the burning stump there, undressed, and fell asleep. The candle continue.t to burn, fixed in the socket of old Kenneth Beaton's ear. A servant entered the room, and seeing the flame from Kenneth's ear he had no doubt it was some supernatural light, for old Kenneth was supposed to hold intercourse with the world of spirits in no ot dinary degree. The servant rushed out to call the minister to witness the flame. The minister came; but by this time the flame had disturbed poor Kenneth, who, turning in his bed, extinguished the flame, and the stump of the candle was found next morning in his ear.—Lord Teigyznioutles Shetches of the Coast and Islands of Scotland. It is not generally known that keeping a general or twopenny post receiving house exempts the owner from serving on juries. We are told a tame young lioness, brought by the Prince de Joinville from the Brazils, plays about the apartments of his Royal Highness at Neuilly. She i< perfectly tree, exceedingly good tempered, and has two monkeys kept with her to amuse her, and with which she is constantly at play. It appears from a collection of statistical documents recently published br the French Government, that, according to sur veys made up to the end of 1 534, the taxah s le ,s l s a 9 ndf : d il p i r l o , l c ie ta rt rL o ; f pasture France was divided as follows :—Arable land, 25,559,131 of anfi and raannde,vineyards, miscellaneoustaxable, fi culture,6c 0 9, 1 4 i 4, 9 34: 2,o7hectaresfor2ohectares. riwoods,rer cemeteries, 3 u i ( 4 iTe nfis hectares; n‘iar e. cane's, &c., was 2,905,008 hectares, making a total of 52,768,618 hectatv or 130,391,055 English acres. It is something new to have t o r e p or t a case o f highway robbery. A grandson of the man O'Neil, who was hanged for this crime about twenty years ago, is in Lanark jail, charged with hav ing assaulted a man near Cbrluke, and robbing him of half a sovereign and three half-crcrwn pieces. O'Neil is only seventeen years of age, and was assisted by several others seemingly as young as himself. Though an experienced hand at depredations, lie was so unguarded as to exchange bonnets with the sufferer, and his bonnet being known to some law offi cers, was the means of his being detected.—Edinburgh Courant. A most remarkable and unprecedented shower of hailstones at this season of the year occurred at Udney, on Sunday the 29th tilt. It was of short duration ; but the general depth, for half a mile on the turnpike, was about four inches,:and the prevailing size of the stones the enormous circumference of three inches.—Edinburgh Courant. ANCESTORS.—The number of ancestors which a person may have is astonishing at first sight. At first, two parents; in the second, four, the parents °fills father and mother ; the third, eight, the parents of his two grandfathers and mothers ; by the same rate of progression, 1,024 in the tenth, and at the twentieth degree, or at the distance of twenty generations, every person has above 1,000,000 an. cestors, as common arithmetic will demonstrate. MISERIES OF INDOLENCE.--None SO little en joy life, and are such burthens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. The active only have the true relish for life. He who knows not what it is to labour knows not what it is to enjoy. Recreation is only valuable as it unbends us; the idle know nothing of it. It is exertion that renders rest delightful, and sleep sweet and undisturbed. That the happiness of life depends upon the regular prosecution of some laudable purpose or laudable calling, which engages, helps, and enlivens all our powers, let those bear witness, who, after spending years in active usefulness, retire to enjoy themselves. They are a burthen to themselves. —Rev, IV, Jay. ENG INTELLIG ENCE BRIGHTON RA CES.—WEDNEsDA P. 'lle Brighton Ste.':: ,of 25 sous. each, 15 ft., and only 5, S‘e•' with 101 adik,l. About two miles. 25 Subscribers, of whom 1 4 d,clare,l. 1 Mr. Theobal I's Lonthetb - )rough, 4 yrs, 7st. 41b. (71b. extra) Duke of Richmond's Gvrava, 3 yrs, sst Mr. Wi , ,,kliam's Pinch,T, aged, 7st. 131 b ... 4 Mr. Coleiml!-I's Calumet:, 5 yrs, Bst. fib .... 5 Duke of Richmond's Pestonjee Boma.ngee, 3 yrs, Gst. 71b •• ••• Heti ing--5 to 2on Loutherbourgh. Won by a neck. The Town Hat:. of 501. Mile heats. A 1 Duke of Richmond's Skllleygolee, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b •• ••• Mr. Theobald's Sir Frederick, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b Mr. Forth's Soldier's Consort, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b 4 3 Lord Chesterfield's f. by Priam, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b 3 Mr. Shelley's Bay Ilampton, 3 3 rs, 7st. 71b 1 5 Mr. Jackson's Peimus, 3 yrs, 7st. 71b dr Mr. Candler's Peruvian, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b • Not finished when the coach left. Mr. Lamb, of Youglial, ro,L, his splendid bay horse from that ()%vii to Cork, a diF,taure of 3"4 English miles, in two hours and ei;hteen minutes, winning thf! wager (WU ) in sporting style, having twelve minutes to spare. This was a feat almost unprece dented in Ireland, and shows the very superior qualities of the horse, being, as we understand, 25 years old. AQUATICS. ARUNDEL STAIRS CLUB.—The second above-bridge sailing match, for a Silver Cap and Cover, to be sailed for amongst yaeti te belonging to this Club, took place yesterday, and was certain'y. well contested and not less well attended. This Club is but nt recent institution, and was formed to exhibit the science of sailing to more perfection amongst the yachts not rated above seven tons.. The Club is composed of the leading members of the Thames Royal Yacht, and the craft entered are of the most beautiful de seription, and selected without any particular reference from the general sailing societies. The distance on this occasion was to start from the Temple Gardens round a boat off Wandswor th Meadows back to the starting place. There have been but three snatches prior to this above bridge, and the great equality o f the yachts entered on this left nothing wanting in the shape of s port. The following had been entered to contend : Names. Tons. Owners. Colours. Arrow 7 ...... Frankham.... Blue, with white arrow. Sylph Star Phoebe 7 . Leonard Red cross on blue ground . Nautilus.... 6 Violet. Arid........ 7 Peggy 5 ..... Elmore. The sporting interest was considerable. The Sylph and Star were the favourites, and backed at odds against the field. Shortly after three o'clock the yachts were at their stations, under the di rection of the gentlemen of the cutter, and in a few minutes, th e signal being given, they canted round in the tide, the start having been so arranged as to allow of their arrival at Wandsworth as nea r high water as possible. The wind was W.N.W., blowing pretty stiffly. The Phoebe was the first in trim, close upon her stern the Star, next the Arrow, and the others close upon her. It was re marked by all present that it was next to an impossibility to witnes s a prettier start than the present. On going under Waterloo' bridge the Star overhauled her opponent and went a-head, and in a very short time the Sylph, which had meanwhile run by the Arrow, passed her, taking the second place, the Phoebe keeping th e third, which, however, she was eventually obliged to give up . After there was not any further change, the Star coming in first , at 42 min. past five, the Sylph 44 min. 10 sec. past five, the Ar row 44 min. 22 sec. past five, and the Phoebe 49 min. past five" The others had throughout kept a very respectful distance, being some . two miles astern of the winning yacht. The Cup was presented by J. T. Hewes, Esq., a gentlern 3s well known as the proprietor of many fast sailing yachts. Considerable excitement has been caused at Bilstonp during the past week, by the following singular circumstances During the late wake in that place a fire balloon was sent up from the town, and while the inhabitants were assembled in the marketplace f or the purpose of viewing the exhibiti on , to th e a l mos t t o t a l c l ear ance t the other streets, an intelligent child, about ten years of age declares h e saw two men first push a man, and shortly afterwards a woman, into he old coal.pit, sttuated in the outskirts of the town, which had not been worked for a long time, in consequence of the foul air which exists 10 those workings to a fearful extent. S o s t ra i g h t f orwar d was th e child' s account, and so pertinaciously did he persist in the avowal of its truth. although taken before many respectable inhabitants, and threatened w ith punishment if found to be false, that the authorities of the place hO e deemed it proper to search the pit, and during the latter part of the week a man, provided with suitable apparatus to guard him from t he effects of the foul air, was let down. Such, how ever , was th e q uantity of poisonous effluvia in the pit, that he was almost immediately drawe up insensible; but recovering, he was again let down, and succeeded,.: searching a small portion of the pit, without, how ever , di scov ering t 1 ; 1 body of any one, and was then obliged to be dr a w n up. The boy persisted in the truth of his tale, and we believe the attempt to explo re the pit will be renewed shortly.— Wolverhampton Chroninle. LIFE AND PROGRESS OF A PETTIFOGGER'S Sunday morning died, in the Boston Union workhouse, Mr. Jo e l ). __ ) Cope, solicitor, aged seventy-five. Mr. Cope has practised in Bost o n forty six years. He was gentlemanly in his deportment and pleasing a his manners, and had the advantage of an education far superior to MO ) ; attorneys. Some years ago he acquired great celebrity as a plead er quarter sessions, and was considered the terror of his opponents. T n , profession did not deem him a sound lawyer, although he was very esP er in finding a flaw in an indictment, or browbeating a witness in _cross examination, on which means the success of his causes chiefly depended' At one period of his life he possessed considerable property and ra n his carriage, but of late years he had beco.ne a pettifogger i n tl e worst sense ; he had recourse to every species of fraud and trickery 03 e would disgrace theprofession and ruin his clients. Through extravaganc and licentiousness he lost all his ill-gotten gains; and for the last two or t'iree years he lived entiretyon the chat ity of humane individuals, but at length was compelled to seek an asylum in the workhouse, having tiredol all his friends. Ile maintained his austerity and pride to the last, a nd w° lll very frequently assume the dignity of by-gone days. Sonic months 2 g7 he attempted to pay his addresses to a r es p ec t a bl e young l a dy, ab seventeen years of age. He wrote t o h er, an d prom i sed to ma ke an al teration in his will in her favour if she would consent to became 111' ; Some time before he went into the Union he was two days without and had nothing but a little cold water. A gentleman who heard of it sent him a large basket full of victuals ; among the rest was the middle of a fine neck of mutton, which he ordered to be roasted on the followtt day . ; hut he would not touch a mouthful until his landlady could borro' sufficient money to obtain a pot of currant jelly. The professional S ell ; (lemon of Boston and the neighbourhood offered to allow him a hn n .. some weekly stipend if he would leave off his practice, which he incl . ''' . tautly refused, and observed that he would never consent to live ler , charity while Providence had blessed him with the use of all his taco!. tic:, Gazette. foots. ------.,—,7-7. _.--.------- _ LADIES' BEST GOLD CHAINS ..,,, The weight i s g i ven b y compar i son w i t h t h e we i g h t o f Sovere,iiet, being more e as ily re f erre d to t h an i f state d i n ounces an d 0 1 0 4 The quality of the gold is warranted equal to any that is vsnr" ) into articles of tiiii description. Price of the Cable Pattern, or Matted Ring Pattern. J . ze s. d. £ 9 „; 0 Same weight as 3 sovs . 44 0 S ame we i ght as 6 sovs. 7 0 Ditto as 4 sovs. 5 5 0 Ditt o as 7 sovs . 8 ' 0 Ditto as 5 sovs. 6 6 0 Ditto as 8 sovs. 9 q n The following Patt erns are O ne G u i nea d earer than t h e ab°' ,r, but cannot be made lighter than the weight of Six Sovereigns '-***- The Cage Pattern. The Chinese Pattern - The Ring and Bar Patte rn . I The Victoria Pattern' TIIE NEW FLAT GOLD WATCHES. 0 The price in gold ca ses , w i t h vert i ca l movements £7 i Ditto, with well-finished horizontal movement, in double= bottomed engine-turned case, jewelled, silver dial, 0 warranted ... T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith and Jeweller, 47, Cornhill, Lontl6o. (Seven Doors from Graeechurch-street.) eild N.B. The Horizontal Construction is particularly ree.orine n ______ for its superior accuracy. ............e..? 818 TBS. , On the 2d inst., at Embleton Vicarage, Ntirthumberlanw the la ly of the R e v. . Rooke, of a son. On the 4th in s t., a t H eys h am , L ancaster, the la d y of • frb— oro Thnnlinson, Esq., barrister-at-law, of twins, a son and &ugh° On the 7th in -t., at Hackney, Mrs. Dattlel Lay, of a son- i v Of On the 27th u lt., i n B ernar d- street , ll ussell-square, t he 18 °J Ca•ttain Agnew, 6th Bengal Native infantry, of a son of On the 3d inst., at Park-road, Regent's-park, Mrs.. Bethel' , slaughter. W el On the 3d inst., at Ptulieote, Oxfordshire, the lady of Plor t Ricardo, Esq., of a daughter, still-born. CilA rief On the sth inst., in Har:ey-street, the wife of the Rev. Martin, of twin suns, still-born. On the sth inst., at Stidbury, Harrow, the lady of W. E. F er r E,q., of a daughter. 1.4 R 1 ED. On the 6th inst., at St. 2l Andrew's Holborn, Mr. Lionel Wa t to i\lirs Kczia Parke. 4, of Bedford-place, Russell-square. i 9 ly On tke 6th inst., at the Spanish Aw.bassador's Chapel, Spy s to place, Manchester-square, Francis Lonergan. Esq., of C„' of Emily Maria, only surv i v i ng d aup, b ter o f J o h n Mousley, r'sq Staunton, Staffordshire, and St. Mary's, Spain. Vegr i4 ' On the 6th inst., at St. Dur-stan's-in-the•WeA, Alex. "'„• q ue. Esq., of Edinburgh, eldest' son. of John Negris, Grand Poste4birt td Eliza, younger daughter o f S tep h en S weet, law lu u London. DIED. _., s l)iP' On the 3d of July, at Ballachen C o tt age , S tam f or d Tow"f s tpt Upper Canada, in the 70th year of his age, William StewSrt' of Hamniersmith, and of Inverkcithitig, N.B. • , orl' ef On the 26th ult., a t Bernsdorff,. near Copenhagen, C 1)113 ' M'Evoy, Esq., aged 78. 1 5() f li4 , On the 31 s t u lt., at Abb ey Fore,rate Shrewsbury, age , ' -' ' , zabeth, wife of General Robert Phillips. 1-Isd' On the Ist in s t., th e Rev. Jelin Addison Carr, Rector of , stock, Essex, a ge d 76. lat e On the 3d inst., at Turtiliam.green, T. W. Hughes, l' s q . ' Excise Inspector of the Ri v e r , aged 79. no bec i At Tidmarsh, near R ea d i ng, Berk s , on t h e s t h inst., of Hopkins, Esq., aged 38. 1 P . '' On the sth inst., at Torquay, Mary, w if e o f W. Hall, boo Springfield, peal. Ross, Herefordshire, and d aug ht er of the Bernard, Esq. ~ P g.' . On the sth inst., at Farneomb, Surrey, Robert Keeli n, late of Gibraltar, aged 82. floO t On the sth inst., at Streatham. Frances, wife of Thos. -colt' Ellis, Esq.. of Sevenoaks, aged 69.. On the sth inst., at St. Albtu3's, aged 28, Mr. John P isg ' solicitor. JO ° On the 2,1 inst., P.'t Langford Hail, n e ar Newark. Notts,— „„e Ilaffenden, Esq.., aged 51. . 0 , 0 ,,, . Oa the 3'.'. inst., in Russell -square, the infant son o f _, Pardoe. 7.1. D. I. pe t . At Stanmore, on the 3d inst Selina,the wife of G. e l ~ nlngton, Esq. at to o S On the 4th in s t., a t D orset Heiuse, Cheltenham, - • ti sc Stephens, solicitor, aged 47. infa At On nn the e e 54tthh inst., in , Sophia, Gosfield, Essex, Robert Mil'k l, wet •of the Rev. W. Burkitt. On the sth inst., • I.,it 4 Clapton. Coleridge, Esq., t aged 79. s(l' in p ß h e ia ; ci ord fe : t u A ar ir e, 11 Fi a •a e n k c b e l s °e D ic' tik l‘f e a, : k roV irifie; of Hea 4 ;tes-comi z, Ottery St. Mary, iw - 1- ;: on, At Tonbridge Wells, William.. only child, of Wro• f the of New Bond-street, aged one vi mr and a half. wife .g O a rl °I On the 6 t h i nst., the Lad:, - } 'Tames Jane Ban- L. c- ' la te Rev. Ed war d Bankes, and younkr pest daughter of t ile Eldon. f— S t e • .oni on : P r i nte d and Published by NURDO 112, Stra n d, at The Sun Of& ye No. 112, Stran d, of 11iddle!ex.—Thuratlay, Agusi 9, 1838' (sljNo Gtle 6 ; '0